repulse

Aristotle recognized that we take pleasure in viewing fictional representations of tragedies, suffering and mutilated corpses that would repulse us if we confronted them in reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Now he dresses as if he looks in his closet, asks what would most repulse women, and throws that on to speak in public.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2025

In an update posted on social media, U.K. officials say that “despite heavy fighting, Ukrainian forces continue to repulse Russian attempts to occupy” the city.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

Nowhere else in Africa did a local ruler so successfully organize to repulse the invaders, but if circumstances had been different, they certainly could have done so.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

According to one source, he also pivoted north in time to repulse a Seleucid counterattack against Egypt.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

"Actually, the idea of wearing it repulses me, I don't even take my old ones out of my drawer. It's a shame, because the shirt itself is gorgeous."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2022

But you never, ever have any obligation to go out with someone who repulses you in any way.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2021

“Beth, the thought of cutting up a turkey repulses me.”

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2019

But this very unnaturalness terrifies and repulses others.

From Nature ● Jul. 24, 2018

But while Thomas’s touch now repulses me, I feel no revulsion toward Day.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Initially repulsed by her new housemate, a closer relationship gradually develops between the two women.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025

There were those repulsed by the kind of language parodied in these books, and those who forced everyone else to speak this way.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025

It captured Lalibela, famous for its rock-hewn churches, and Gondar, the second-biggest city in Amhara, for several days in August before being repulsed.

From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2023

At once he was on his feet, cringing away from her, quite obviously repulsed.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

This ion is pushed out of the crystal by the repulsing forces of the nearby Li+ ions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023

Staufenbiel was at his best when it came to illuminating the emotional energies attracting or repulsing these characters.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

A key condition for success in repulsing the Chinese attack is that Taiwan’s government and military must successfully resist and not surrender.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2023

Speaking on the phone from Kyiv, Mr Zhorin said the roughly 1,000 Ukrainian defenders left in the works have been fighting in "360 degrees for more than one month", repulsing attacks from all angles.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2022

And we were careful not to touch, so careful it felt like some repulsing magnetic field had settled between us.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx